Fourth Estate Follies - (liberal media getting what it deserves....and has earned, for decades!)

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE.COM ^ | MAY 23, 2005 | TAKI

[Mama Shawna]

Interesting...BTTT

[Texas_Jarhead]

Down with the Seven Deadly Sinners!

[xJones]

It is the great misfortune of today's MSM that they were raised on examples of Walter Cronkite/Robert Woodward/Bob Herbert's left-wing abilities to lie and get away with it, but now they're stuck in a new media world.

It's not supposed to be like that, they're supposed to the good guys, and, like, somehow the script got really screwed up.

[YOUGOTIT]

They need to go to jail. There is nothing in the Constitution that says a reporter is above the law.

[GloriaJane]

Great read! You all know what I think of the Seven Deadly Sinners.

The one's we don't tar, feather and run outta town on a rail, should all be put in jail.

[gcruse]

I doubt if one in a hundred people even know who Adolphe Menjou was.

[CHARLITE]

"... run outta town on a rail, should all be put in jail."

For the life of me, I don't understand why Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, CBS, Bill Burkett and the actual "designer" of the fake "memos" weren't all prosecuted! George W. Bush himself could probably have sued the pants off of the bunch of them for libel.

I don't know about what the grounds would be for criminal charges, but these liberal media types are getting away with acts of sedition at the very least. If conservative news organizations had done what these liberals have done, you can be sure that liberals would raise the roof. We would never hear the end of it!

Char

[RedRover]

Adolphe Menjou was the rich man's Don Ameche. Everybody knows that.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[mozarky2]

Dear, oh dear! Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times columnist, laments, “the climate for freedom of the press in the United States feels more ominous than it has for decades.”

Satements like this this just make me sick! Freedom of the press in America has never been stronger! (or freer)

[upchuck]

I doubt if one in a hundred people even know who Adolphe Menjou was.

I didn't. But I do now, now that Google lead me here.

[papertyger]

They need to go to jail. There is nothing in the Constitution that says a reporter is above the law.

Oh, I don't know. There's something tremendoulsly satisfying about seeing an aging narcissistic beauty queen spurned with ever greater frequency by the suitors she formerly held in contempt.

[John Lenin]

And speaking of Uncle Joe, while FDR was president there was a very significant infiltration of the government by Soviet agents. A vast propaganda campaign by journalists like I.F. Stone—an idol of that other arch-phony Christopher Hitchens—managed to discredit a great American like Sen. Joe McCarthy and turn him into a figure of ridicule and hate.

That arch-phony Robert Kennedy Jr. is almost as hysterical as Maureen Dowd because our voices are being heard for a change. Kennedy’s rationale reminds me of that of Karagiozis, a Greek clown who tells his business partner, “All I have is mine, and all you have is mine also ...” Kennedy claims that conservatives rule the airwaves and the media. It’s as valid a claim as when he pleaded innocent to heroin possession while smacked out on his back during a commercial flight.

Excellent, he nails both of these clowns to the wall. I knew RFK Jr. had a mental problem, heroin explains it.

[SMARTY]

"...conservatism is finally getting a fair hearing by the American people."

It had to happen...and if journalists are SOOO smart, if they are so sure of their innocence then why are they not prepared to defend themselves properly against charges of bias?

They are less and less credible all the time, (including TV news which has become all but unwatchable) and it continues to escape their notice that US public officials are freely and fairly elected persons whose selection reflects the will and sentiment of the majority. If this basic observation would ever gain a place in their reckoning of things, it would be a giant step in the direction towards unbiased journalism. I am not optimistic.

[SMARTY]

"...conservatism is finally getting a fair hearing by the American people."

It had to happen...and if journalists are SOOO smart, if they are so sure of their innocence then why are they not prepared to defend themselves properly against charges of bias?

They are less and less credible all the time, (including TV news which has become all but unwatchable) and it continues to escape their notice that US public officials are freely and fairly elected persons whose selection reflects the will and sentiment of the majority. If this basic observation would ever gain a place in their reckoning of things, it would be a giant step in the direction towards unbiased journalism. I am not optimistic.

[whd23]

The New York Times leads the way. Trying to play God for much too long has left the paper of record believed by only 21 percent of its readers according to Pew research.

Can this be true? Not only is their audience shrinking, but the overwhelming majority of those that do bother to buy the rag don't believe what they read. Why buy the paper then? It's all old news by the time it's come off the press.

[tubebender]

RIGHT ON!!!...

[SierraWasp]

"according to Pew research"

In order to be consistent... I must say, their polling and "research" is indeed quite smelly, to say the least!!!

Usually, if it smells all liberally leftist, they publish it! If not, they usually don't!!!

[Grampa Dave]